Twas brillig at 13:08:40 06.07.2008 UTC-04 when joeyh@debian.org did gyre and gimble:
JH> So, after sufficient time, the gnome menu will contain a random
JH> assortment of the menu items that also appear in the debian menu.
fd.o menus are designed to allow distro-specific policy. It's the matter
of Debian KDE/Gnome packaging/menu policy to get the proper subset of
the packages in menu (e.g. moving Gnome/gtk applications deeper in KDE
menu and Qt/KDE - in Gnome one).
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